NATO Chief: ‘Stay the Course’ in Afghan War

In an interview today with the Associated Press, Afghan War Commander General David Petraeus suggested that the death of Osama bin Laden would harm putative ties between al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He estimated “between 50 and 100 al-Qaeda” members were in Afghanistan.

At the same time, Petraeus said the death wouldn’t end the war, and fighting would continue with the massive Taliban insurgency. He also warned that other “transnational terror groups” might set up in Afghanistan.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed similar sentiments in his own talks today. The alliance leader said NATO would continue to “stay the course” in Afghanistan through at least 2014.

“International terrorism still poses a threat toward our countries,” Rasmussen insisted. Since officials have long used bin Laden as the nominal reason for the war in Afghanistan, his death has led to a number of calls to end the conflict. Officials seem united in wanting to keep the war going in an open-ended manner.

They stay just to have more bases in the world that they think they own.America killes more people in 1 week than so called terroists do in 10 years.If they left than the Taliban would stop all the opium being made and the US loves not only the money they make from it but also the people that die from there addiction.And than after shipping and distributing it the put millions of people in jail for drugs that they bring them.Very sick people that are proffesional liers.And they are the real terrorists that if you read about it will no 100 persent that 9/11 was done by them.